The Board of NOLAA met on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at Aladdin’s Eatery at 6:30PM.  In attendance were 5 Board Members including Rick Ganim, Nicole Gove, Pierre Chelala, Joe Khadige, and Paul Daher.

Honoree Committee: The Board is considering the establishment of an honoree committee to assist with advisement.

Building: The board is looking into another prospective property.

Heritage Ball: Mayor Cyril Kleem has agreed to be the MC. In this year’s program, we are going to thank the past honorees that attended (collectively) and do a Year in Review - where we will feature pictures and commentary about what we’ve accomplished in the past year. Nicole will filter out the duplicate addresses in the master Heritage Ball mailing list and send it to the printer so that invitations will go out on Monday, October 12^th.

Heritage Ball Entertainment: Finalized the Band; Classical Trio; Sound; videographer;  Looking into cost of photo/video.

Golf Outing: The event was a success; the Board has established a scholarship fund that will be solely designated for the scholarship awards.

Membership: Joseph Salem and Roland Eid were approved by all board members present.

By-Law: Paul is going to schedule a By-Law Committee meeting in the next month.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:30pm

The next Board Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, October 3, 2009 at 6:30pm.